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Harrison
Poems
Apr 2014
The Coin and The Flower
I could see Montana in your unopened eye lids
Vast valleys in your chlorophyll
Your fingertips dipped in rust
And then you shook them to
Dry
I love your sky Colorado
Split ends that could spilt
Appalachians
I would touch you if I had hands
Rub our rust like tectonic plates
My ridges are cold like Alaska
New England Industry booms me out
Like bullets
But I found you near the Delaware again,
Like I did back in the winter ‘76
Or maybe ‘74
I can’t remember
I hated the combat but I loved the war
Reminds me of yours
Your crashing Colorado
Runs down your spine
The Mississippi would cut through yellow stone
If it could
But
You are dying, I know that now
Like everything else, like Vietnam
I see your red and your white
But where is your blue?
I’ve seen the hands of America
I’ve lost mine too.
#love
#loss
#past
Written by
Harrison
24/M/New York
(24/M/New York)
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